Police incident report fills in details on Trayvon Martin shooting

A three-page police report contains new details about the shooting death of Sanford, Fla. teenager Trayvon Martin.

It discloses that George Zimmerman, who shot Martin on Feb. 26, was in custody on the scene and told police that he had tried, in vain, to find someone to help him with his own injuries.

The report, filed by Sanford police officer Ricardo Ayala and published online Tuesday by the Chicago Tribune, indicates that there were at least six witnesses — three men and three women — who saw or heard some part of the events that led to Martin’s death. They ranged in age from 19 to 56, and included five people described as “white.” The race of the sixth witness was listed as “O,” meaning “other.”

The report notes that Martin was six feet tall when he died, compared with the 5-foot, 9-inch tall Zimmerman, the self-appointed neighborhood watchman who killed him after what he told police was a physical altercation that Martin started…

…Officer Timothy Smith, in his written report, notes that “Zimmerman complied with all my commands and was secured in handcuffs.”…

…“Zimmerman was placed in the rear of my police vehicle and was given first aid. … I overheard him state ‘I was yelling for someone to help me, but no one would help me.’ …

Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill called the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin a “murder” and the result of racial profiling, as they hosted the black teen’s parents at a high-profile briefing Tuesday.

“I tell my son, you have to be careful (wearing) a hoodie,” Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat who is black, said. “Trayvon was murdered for walking while black in a gated community.”

Martin’s parents also spoke at the House Judiciary Committee briefing on hate crimes and racial profiling. Organized by House Democrats, the briefing brought the heated national debate over Martin’s death and the handling of the shooter to the halls of Congress for the first time…